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Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:15:22 +0100FeedCreator 1.7.2Playwrights on Playwriting - Beginningshttp://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/playwrights-on-playwriting-beginnings
How do playwrights get ideas? How do they begin writing their plays? What do they do to get the first draft completed? Below are some thoughts from playwrights on how they begin.<br><br><b></b><div style="text-align: right;" class="yui-wk-div"><b></b><div style="text-align: center;" class="yui-wk-div"><b><b></b></b><div style="display: inline !important;" class="yui-wk-div"><b><b><img src="http://tombrogan.co.uk/resources/2018-01-26 16.21.14.jpg" style="font-weight: normal; width: 325px;" class="yui-img"></b><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></span></b></b><div style="text-align: left;" class="yui-wk-div"><b><b><b style="font-size: 13px;"></b></b></b><div style="display: inline !important;" class="yui-wk-div"><b><b><b style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>Ideas and Getting Started</span></span></b></b></b></b><br><br>"I’m a thorough planner. I don’t write from nothing onto the page. There are five stages of the writing process for me. There’s a lengthy period of months and months of mulling. I move from what Peter Brook describes as “a formless hunch” to starting work on a play. I’ve got to go very slowly with it. The slowness is key. Then I will start researching—reading around the subject I’m writing about. I might look at art, listen to music, watch movies or interview people—to just start filling up the sponge. From the research comes a lot of note-taking: I’ll do exercises to start generating material, and that will take a month or so. Then I’ll start to land on the characters in the play—what they want, what’s stopping them from getting what they want. After that, I’ll figure out how many scenes the play has and how many characters are in each scene. Then the process of writing is like painting by numbers. I really love that because it allows me to work very quickly. The tension between slowness and speed is really useful.&nbsp;<b>Simon Stephens</b> <i>(Birdland, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Heisenberg)</i> from <a href="http://www.broadway.com/buzz/181208/tony-winning-curious-incident-playwright-simon-stephens-on-the-danger-of-words-and-why-awards-dont-matter/" target="_blank" class="">Broadway.com</a><br><br>"Once I do miraculously start writing a play, it’s usually helpful when I can kind of taste the end of the play. If I know exactly what the ending is going to be, then my play gets obvious and boring. But when I feel that on some strange unconscious level I’m writing toward something, that’s good. I also take a lot of notes before I start writing a new play. I used to think this was a form of procrastination — and it is, sometimes — but it has actually proved to be very helpful. By the time I start writing a first draft I have about 30 pages of nonsensical-seeming fragments and I usually work off of those." <b>Annie Baker </b><i>(The Flick, John, Circle Mirror Transformation)</i> from <a href="http://flavorwire.com/37906/exclusive-qa-with-emerging-playwright-annie-baker-interview-circle-mirror-transformation" target="_blank" class="">Flavorwire</a><br><br>"I spend a ton of time just coming up with the bits that will make a piece. These might be stand-alone images or puns or moments in time. They might be lines of misheard conversations. They might simply be two words put together that don’t usually go together. They might just be simple twists on the everyday. I write these in notebooks while on trains or on pads while sitting around the flat; often they come in the middle of the night in that pre-dream state when your mind is trying to get through the real-world stuff you’ve put into it over the course of a day and, enough already, it wants to get crazy. So these ideas next go through a process of mulling and reproduction. Lists and lists of them get transcribed into a notebook, about 25 to a page. Once in here they can be re-examined and continue to baffle. After a while they get typed into a computer, get printed out and re-read. This distillation is important as, over time, connections and mysteries reveal themselves. For my last solo show – Each of Us – I eventually had about 1250 ideas placed in a printed out document." <b>Ben Moor</b> <i>(Coelacanth, Not Everything Is Significant, A Supercollider for the Family)</i> from <a href="http://www.skylightrain.com/how-to-write/" target="_blank" class="">Skylightrain</a>.<br><br>"I have usually begun a play in quite a simple manner; found a couple of characters in a particular context, thrown them together and listened to what they said, keeping my nose to the ground. I've written nine plays, for various mediums, and at the moment I haven't the slightest idea how I've managed to do it. Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure'. And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one." <b>Harold Pinter</b><i> (The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter)</i> from a speech made at the National Student Drama Festival in Bristol in 1962, as quoted in 'Plays 1'.<br><br>"[My writing] definitely runs away with me. I feel like I’m strangling an idea if I plan it. So far I’ve just written people saying things until I get interested then get all those bits together and string them together with a story. That can leave me writing for a looooong time, but it can be worth it!"&nbsp;<b>Phoebe Waller-Bridge</b>&nbsp; <i>(Fleabag) </i>from <a href="https://17percent.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/phoebe-waller-bridge-talks-about-fleabag-and-writing/" target="_blank" class="">17 Per Cent</a>.<br><br>"It’s very simple. I discover that I am thinking about a play. I am not a person who gets ideas for a play: “Oh wow, wouldn’t it be good to write a play about this.” I write the plays to find out why I’m writing them. I’m aware that I’m “with play” and usually it comes to term. By the time I’ve finished the piece I’ve gotten so involved with the reality of it that I don’t think much about what caused it."&nbsp;<b>Edward Albee</b> <i>(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story,&nbsp;The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?)</i> from <a href="https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/new-again-edward-albee" target="_blank" class="">Interview Magazine</a>&nbsp;<br><br>"Let's face it, most writers are pussies. We sit back and watch the world go by, writing down the things we find funny or sad while trying to make a buck off it. We use our lives, or the lives of others, for personal gain, and we defend it by saying it's "in the public domain" or "true", and therefore OK to slop around in someone else's pain." <b>Neil La Bute</b> <i>(This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), Wrecks) </i>from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/15/usa.theatre" target="_blank" class="">The Guardian&nbsp;</a>.<br><br>"It takes me about two years to write a farce from the very basic idea - say, a man with two wives. You make lots of little notes and then you sit down a work a basic plot. An then there are the characters that you have to serve. In Run For Your Wife - the man with two wives, what kind of job would he have? A lorry driver? A cab driver? - they're funny anyway and eccentric. Then you have to think what's the danger? In farce you always have to have the danger. Of course you have the two wives finding out - which is wonderful danger - and then you can get authority in somewhere like the police. Then I map the whole thing out but I don't write a word until I have the whole thing in my mind from beginning until the end. I am viscous with my own plays - I rewrite a lot." <b>Ray Cooney</b> <i>(My Giddy Aunt, Run For Your Wife, Wife Begins at Forty)</i> from an interview with The Stage April 25, 2002<br><br>"It's different every time. Sometimes you'll wake up in the morning with an idea and you'll think, I've got to get it all down and it'll be a perfect scene, and you won't do anything with it, to change it - that'll be the scene that goes on in the theatre. Other times you can spend years with a load of material, that you know is good, and you know you like it, and you heard it in your head so you know it's real, but you can't shape it, it resists shaping, it resists crafting, and it takes years for it to finally untangle itself. Blue/Orange was like that. I had those elements in my head for years and years, and I'd written bits and pieces, but it wasn't until one stormy night that it came together. Then I wrote it very quickly, in a couple of weeks. But I'd had it in my head for about seven years - attempting to write something and then thinking, oh, that's going nowhere, and leaving it." <b>Joe Penhall</b> <i>(Blue/Orange, Some Voices, Dumb Show) </i>interviewed by Harriet Devine in 'Looking Back Playwrights at the Royal Court 1956-2006'.<br><br>"If I’m going to write a play or a film I’ll say, I’m starting it today and then I’ll go three hours a day, or three pages a day until it’s done. Then stop, maybe type it. I’ll do it until it’s done, and then not write for ten months. No, I don’t write constantly. I don’t even take notes, really. I don’t even think about it too much. I like having things seep in. No, I don’t write every day; I don’t think I could. I should write more than I do probably." <b>Martin McDonagh</b> <i>(The Beauty Queen of Leenane,&nbsp; A Behanding in Spokane, Hangmen)</i> from <a href="https://bombmagazine.org/articles/martin-mcdonagh/" target="_blank" class="">Bomb Magazine</a>.<br><br>“It's a process of discovery. I discover a play, in two or three drafts, maybe four."&nbsp;<b>Tennessee&nbsp;Williams</b> <i>(The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof )</i> from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/13/archives/tennessee-williams-is-a-reluctant-performer-for-an-audience-of-high.html" target="_blank" class="">The New York Times</a>.<br><br>"It takes me a long time to germinate a play. I have the germ of an idea now but I shall have to wait until other ideas build around it before I can even begin to sit down at the typewriter. No play is one idea. No, I hate [writing]. There is absolutely no joy in the process of putting my thoughts down on paper. Completion is the only art form I can think of where the real creation takes place when the artist (ie the playwright) has done his bit." <b>Terry Johnson</b> <i>(Insignificance, Hysteria, Dead Funny)</i> from an interview with The Stage June 27, 1985.<br><br><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">First Drafts</span></b><br><br>"Plays often have no more words than a longish mid-length short story so it is possible to write a draft in a week or less. I wrote Temptress’s ten thousand words in three days of lying on a couch, napping, listening to music, reading and writing the occasional burst of dialogue. I write a first draft by hand and so quickly that afterwards some of it is illegible even to me. But it’s best not to linger over dialogue at this point. Get it down and move along. That helps generate pace. A reader can skip past the less interesting parts of a novel, and a viewer can fast forward through a DVD, but the audience has no control over the speed of a play and may drift off mentally if you don’t absorb them deeply in the action."&nbsp;<b>Philip St John</b><i> (Maxine, The Sylvia, On City Water Hill)</i> from <a href="https://www.writing.ie/resources/so-you-want-to-write-a-play-philip-st-john-explains-how/" target="_blank" class="">Writing.ie</a>.<br><br>"Give yourself permission to write really bad first drafts and write things that feel crazy, offensive, and dangerous. Write about the things that terrify you. Go look at the first page of the first draft of “The Homecoming” in the British Library. Pinter wrote things and crossed them out. A lot."&nbsp;<b>Emily Bohannon</b> <i>(Water on the Moon, The Dog Watcher, Noel Gallagher's Guitar) </i>from&nbsp;<a href="http://aszym.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/i-interview-playwrights-part-269-emily.html" target="_blank" class="">Adam Szymkowicz's 1000 Playwright Interviews</a><br><br>"I begin by sharpening six pencils and laying them out. My first draft is done in pencil, on a pad. I do three pages a day. I like the speed of a pencil. Then I type it up. That's like my second draft, and I make changes while I type. Sometimes that's it. Other times I pencil in changes on the typed pages."&nbsp;<b>Martin McDonagh</b> from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/25/magazine/most-promising-and-grating-playwright.html" target="_blank" class="">The New York Times</a>.<br><br>"Think of the first draft as typing. Type and keep typing until you have a draft. Writing is when you get to the rewriting much farther down the road. If you take the pressure and preciousness out of the first draft you won’t freeze up as much and before you know it you’ll have something worth worrying about."&nbsp;<b>Nate Eppler</b> <i>(Long Way Down, Good Monsters, The Ice Treatment)</i> from&nbsp;<a href="http://aszym.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/i-interview-playwrights-part-752-nate.html" target="_blank" class="">Adam Szymkowicz's 1000 Playwright Interviews</a>.<a href="http://aszym.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/i-interview-playwrights-part-752-nate.html" target="_blank" class=""><br></a><br>"First drafts just need to get written. You're in a tunnel, and you don't know if there is a way out. But before the first draft, or during, if I'm stuck, I'll do monologues for each character to strengthen their voices. I'll also write the story of the play several times, once in each character's voice. This is usually very revealing because, of course, everybody tells a different side to the same story. I also believe in giving a first draft some breathing time after it's done before going back to write it again. I'm trying not to use the word revising anymore. I'm thinking of rewriting as just continuing the writing. It's more opening, less restrictive." <b>Katherine Koller</b> <i>(Last Chance Leduc, The Seed Savers, Coal Valley: The Making of a Miner) </i>from <a href="http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/news/featured-playwright-q-katherine-koller" target="_blank" class="">Playwrights Guild of Canada</a>.&nbsp;<br><br>"The first draft is always the most difficult for me. Once I have the draft then I become a bit like a rabid dog constantly going through the play. I like to write notes on a hardcopy, put the changes in the computer, and reprint... It's not the most enviromentally friendly way of working... I write out of sequence so that I'm leading with the moments that mean the most to me. Location is very important to me. I tend to watch a lot of documentaries and transcript the dialogue to learn how to write the speech cadence and vocabulary of a specific location - the setting for the play."&nbsp;<b>Lindsey Ferrentino </b><i>(Amy and the Orphans, Exile, The Vultures)</i> from <a href="http://www.playbill.com/article/lindsey-ferrentino-on-writing-the-most-difficult-first-draft-of-her-play-and-the-use-of-virtual-reality-therapy-com-324422" target="_blank" class="">Playbill</a>.<br><br>"I wait a long time before I write the play down. I trust my intuition and don’t rewrite very much. Like everybody else I write a little too much and get carried away with the sound of my own voice, but I can cut. And I’ve learned one other important thing: If you have some notion as to where you’re going, and in the middle of the play you find out that it’s changing, trust your intuition."&nbsp;<b>Edward Albee</b> from <a href="https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/new-again-edward-albee" target="_blank" class="">Interview Magazine</a>.<br><br>"The only time I’m really happy is re-reading what I’ve handwritten the day before. Re-reading it and being surprised that I actually wrote that. That’s sounds pretty arrogant, but there’s a joy in that, flipping back the last two hand-written pages and being surprised. I think it probably gives me more joy than anything else I’ve done up to this point." <b>Martin McDonagh</b> from <a href="https://bombmagazine.org/articles/martin-mcdonagh/" target="_blank" class="">Bomb Magazine</a>.</div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:23:27 +0100Films of Other Years That I Saw For the First Time In 2017http://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/films-of-other-years-that-i-saw-for-the-first-time-in-2017
1. Little Children (2006)<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bezyl7ZDp44" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<br><br>2. Tower (2016)<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GTzNkfgM1vE" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<br><br><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80103666" target="_blank" class="">Netflix</a><br><br>3. Good Vibrations (2012)<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SE17U5ML9dQ" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<br><br>4. Philomena (2013)<br><br><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70293789" target="_blank" class="">Netflix</a><br><br>5.&nbsp;Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)<br><br>6. The Dark Horse (2014)<br><br><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80018751" target="_blank" class="">Netflix</a><br><br>7. Warrior (2011)<br><br><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70141653" target="_blank" class="">Netflix</a><br><br>8. Boy (2010)<br><br>9. (500) Days of Summer (2009)<br><br>10. Dirty Girl (2010)<br><br>11. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)<br><br>12. The Lives of Others (2006)<br><br>13. Rabbit Hole (2010)<br><br>14. Take Shelter (2011)<br><br>15. The History Boys (2006)<br><br>16. Fish Tank (2009)<br><br>17. Proof (2005)<br><br>18. Senna (2010)<br><br>19.&nbsp;Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream (2015)<br><br>20. Easy A (2010)<br><br>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:58:35 +0100Tom’s Films of the Year 2017http://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/tom’s-films-of-the-year-2017
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">1. Manchester By the
Sea<br><br></p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gsVoD0pTge0" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">2. The Big Sick<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PJmpSMRQhhs" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<br><br>3. Get Out<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DzfpyUB60YY" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <br><br>4. It<br><br>5. Battle of the Sexes<br><br>6. The Disaster Artist<br><br>7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi<br><br>8. La La Land<br><br>9. Wind River<br><br>10. Free Fire<br><br>11. Baby Driver<br><br>12. Prevenge<br><br>13. Logan Lucky<br><br>14. Blade Runner 2049<br><br>15. Dunkirk<br><br>16. The Death of Stalin<br><br>17. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool<br><br>18. Logan<br><br>19. Mindhorn<br><br>20. Borg vs. McEnroe</p>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:02:12 +0100Tom's Films of the Year 2016http://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/tom-s-films-of-the-year-2016
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<div class="yui-wk-div">1. <b>Whiplash </b>(2015)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Damien Chazelle<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser<br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7d_jQycdQGo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>2. <b>Locke </b>(2013)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Steven Knight<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Tom Hardy<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xdaofZfgV_Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br><div class="yui-wk-div">3.<b>Big Bad Wolves </b>(2013)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Lior Ashkenazi, Tzahi Grad, Doval'e Glickman, Rotem Keinan<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GsfzhiW5l8c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>4. <b>A Hijacking</b> (2013)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Tobias Lindholm<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk, Dar Salim<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V45txjDDu-4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>5. <b>Downfall </b>(2004)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel<div class="yui-wk-div">Written by Bernd Eichinger<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bp1RXmM1-60" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>6. <b>Milano Calibro 9</b> (1972)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Fernando Di Leo<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Frank Wolff<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qu_V9BDImFM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>7. <b>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre </b>(1948)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by John Huston<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGpvO8JabEc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>8. <b>Before I Disappear</b> (2014)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Shawn Christensen<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Shawn Christensen, Fátima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CXpMydcWdjk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>9.<b> The House of Yes</b> (1997)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Mark Waters<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr.<div class="yui-wk-div"><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G6dqrP5WviY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>10. <b>John Wick </b>(2014)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Chad Stahelski, David Leitch<div class="yui-wk-div">Written by Derek Kolstad<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RllJtOw0USI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><br>11. <b>Faults </b>(2014)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Riley Stearns<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Ellis, Jon Gries<br><br><div class="yui-wk-div"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k-ylsmarMnE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>12. <b>Traders</b> (2015)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Nika McGuigan&nbsp;<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zE8Y6If3dhg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:16:51 +0100Best Films I Saw For the First Time in 2015 That Weren't Released in 2015http://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/best-films-i-saw-for-the-first-time-in-2015-that-weren-t-released-in-2015
1. <b>The Wild Bunch</b> (1969)
<br>Directed by Sam Peckinpah <br>Written by Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
<br>Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
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<br><br>2. <b>The Drop</b> (2014)
<br>Directed by Michaël R. Roskam
<br>Written by Dennis Lehane
<br>Starring: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
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<br><br>3. <b>Kill the Messenger </b>(2014)
<br>Directed by Michael Cuesta
<br>Written by Peter Landesman
<br>Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper
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<br><br>4. <b>The Battered Bastards of Baseball </b>(2014)
<br>Directed by Chapman Way, Maclain Way
<br>Starring: Todd Field, Kurt Russell, Rob Nelson, Jim Swanson
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<br><br>5. <b>Captain Phillips</b> (2013)
<br>Directed by Paul Greengrass
<br>Written by Billy Ray
Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdirahman, Mahat M. Ali
<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_3ASoBrFGlc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>6. <b>Children of Men</b> (2006)
<br>Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
<br>Written by Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
<br>Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam
<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2VT2apoX90o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>7. <b>Finding Nemo</b> (2003)
<br>Directed by Andrew Stanton
<br>Written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
<br>Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
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<br><br>8. <b>Broken</b> (2012)
<br>Directed by Rufus Norris <br>Written by Mark O'Rowe
<br>Starring: Eloise Laurence, Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear
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<br><br>9. <b>Harry Brown</b> (2009)
<br>Directed by Daniel Barber
<br>Written by Gary Young
<br>Starring: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Ben Drew, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley
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<br><br>10. <b>Heartlands</b> (2002)
<br>Directed by Damien O'Donnell
<br>Written by Paul Fraser
<br>Starring: Michael Sheen, Mark Addy, Mark Strong, Celia Imrie
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<br><br>11. <b>Red Dawn </b>(1984)
<br>Directed by John Milius
<br>Written by John Milius, Kevin Reynolds
<br>Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton
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<br><br>12. <b>The Bang Bang Club</b> (2010)
<br>Written and directed by Steven Silver
<br>Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Phillippe, Frank Rautenbach, Neels Van Jaarsveld
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1. <b>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</b> (UK release date 17th December)<br>
Directed by J. J. Abrams<br>
Written by Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, Michael Arndt<br>
Starring: Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver<br>
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2. <b>The Lobster </b>(UK release date 16th October)<br>
Directed by&nbsp;Yorgos Lanthimos<br>
Written by&nbsp;Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos<br>
Starring:&nbsp;Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman<br>
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3. <b>Birdman </b>(UK release date 1st January)<br>
Directed by&nbsp;Alejandro G. Iñárritu<br>
Written by&nbsp;Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo<br>
Starring:&nbsp;Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton<br>
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4. <b>Slow West</b> (UK release date 26th June)<br>
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8. <b>Bone Tomahawk</b> (UK release date 19th February)<br>Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler<br>Starring:&nbsp;Kurt Russell, Sean Young, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox, Lili Simmons&nbsp;<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ZbwtHi-KSE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br>&nbsp; <br>9. <b>Steve Jobs </b>(UK release date 13th November)<br>Directed by Danny Boyle<br>Written by Aaron Sorkin<br>Starring:&nbsp;Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Sarah Snook, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels and Michael Stuhlbarg<br><br>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aEr6K1bwIVs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>10. <b>Mistress America</b> (UK release date 14th August)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Noah Baumbach<div class="yui-wk-div">Written by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig<div class="yui-wk-div">Starring: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Heather Lind, Cindy Cheung, Jasmine Cephas Jones<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6z8MCW16uZY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br><br>11.&nbsp;<b>The Program</b> &nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">(UK release date 16th October )<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Stephen Frears</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by John Hodge</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace</div></span><br>12.&nbsp;<b>Trainwreck</b> (Uk release date 14th August)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Judd Apatow</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by Amy Schumer</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Mike Birbiglia</div><div><br></div>13.&nbsp;<b>Marshland</b> (UK release date 7th August)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Alberto Rodríguez&nbsp;</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Alberto Rodríguez,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.22;">Rafael Cobos</span></div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Raúl Arévalo, Javier Gutiérrez, Nerea Barros, Antonio de la Torre<br><br></div>14.&nbsp;<b>While We're Young</b>&nbsp;(UK release date 3rd April)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by&nbsp;Noah Baumbach</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried<br><br><span style="line-height: 1.22;">15.&nbsp;<b>Inside Out</b>&nbsp;</span>(UK release date 24th July)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by&nbsp;Pete Docter</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by&nbsp;Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling</div></div><br>16.&nbsp;<b>A Most Violent Year</b> (UK release date 23rd January)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by&nbsp;J. C. Chandor<span style="line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola, Albert Brooks, Elyes Gabel</span></div><div class="yui-wk-div"><br></div>17.&nbsp;<b>Call Me Lucky</b> (No UK release)<br>Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait<br>Starring:&nbsp;Barry Crimmins,&nbsp;Jack Gallagher, David Cross, Patton Oswalt<br><br>18.&nbsp;<b>The Legend of Barney Thomson</b> (UK release date 24th July)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Robert Carlyle</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Richard Cowan, Colin McLaren</span></div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, James Cosmo, Martin Compston, Ashley Jensen</div><br>19.&nbsp;<b>Straight Outta Compton</b> (UK release date 28th August)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by F. Gary Gray</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Jonathan Herman,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.22;">Andrea Berloff</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.22;">Starring:&nbsp;</span>O'Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti<br></div><br>20.&nbsp;<b>Black Mass</b> (UK release date 27th November)<br>Directed by Scott Cooper<br>Written by&nbsp;Jez Butterworth, Mark Mallouk<br>Starring:&nbsp;Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons<br><br>21.&nbsp;<b>Ant-Man</b> (UK release date 17th July)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Peyton Reed</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by&nbsp;Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, Paul Rudd</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña</div><br>22.&nbsp;<b>Avengers: Age of Ultron</b> (UK release 23rd April)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by Joss Whedon</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner</span></div><div><br></div>23.&nbsp;<b>The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?</b> (UK release 29th May)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Written and directed by&nbsp;Jon Schnepp</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Nicolas Cage, Tim Burton, Kevin Smith</div><br>24. <b>Tig</b> (No UK release)<br>Directed by&nbsp;Kristina Goolsby, Ashley York<br>Starring: Tig Notaro,&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.22;">Stephanie Allynne, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman</span><div><br></div>25. <b>The Martian</b> (UK release date 30th September)<br><div class="yui-wk-div">Directed by Ridley Scott</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Written by Drew Goddard</div><div class="yui-wk-div">Starring:&nbsp;Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña</div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:14:13 +0100ON THE BUSES with Kelman the young Drumchapel writerhttp://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/on-the-buses-with-kelman-the-young-drumchapel-writer
I came across this interview with James Kelman while researching old copies of the Clydebank Press. I thought it was worth preserving.<br><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ON THE BUSES with Kelman the young
Drumchapel writer</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">by JACK HAGGERTY</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">The Clydebank Press, Friday, January
11, 1974</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">Jim Kelman is a young Glasgow writer,
presently living in Maryhill, who has just published his first book
of short stories recently, “An Old Pub near the Angel”
(Puckerbush Press, Orono, Maine, U.S.A.). Although born and bred in
Govan, he was brought up largely in Drumchapel back in the '50s,
drifting since then between London, Jersey and Manchester – even a
brief spell in Passadena, California.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> I wanted to talk to him most
especially about his boyhood in Drumchapel, what he remembered, how
everything grew bad, sights, sounds, images, funny stories, the whole
bit. Good copy for a reporter, great material for a creative writer.
Over the telephone he said fine, come up at any time, we'll go for a
pint maybe and talk.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The flat in Garioch Mill Road,
Maryhill, seems very cramped and gives the impression of being
crowded with that old-fashioned sort of furniture built by craftsmen,
finished with care. Much more agreeable than some of the shoddy
workmanship turned out today; much more pleasant an atmosphere to sit
back in and talk, the firelight making everything slightly luminous,
reminding you that everything has a softer surface.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “I've never actually published
anything about Drumchapel yet,” said Kelman, sitting in the front
parlour. “Not yet. But I will. It's got to come into it at some
time. With a housing scheme there's so much possibility, so much to
write about.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">DRUMCHAPEL FEATURE</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“The Scotsman newspaper did an
interview with me recently and I was later asked how about writing a
sort of feature piece on Drumchapel. Actually I made a start on it,
but never finished it. You see it sort of developed into something
else. It became a conversation between two Drumchapel women,
housewives. One stays there, the other wants to move out...One day
I'll come back to it and make a play out of it maybe.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> While Kelman was talking, his two baby
daughters kept spilling into the room, climbing up on his knee,
wanting to be kissed, to say goodnight to the visitor before they
went to bed.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Kelman is married to a secretary from
Swansea, holds down a job as a bus driver to keep the wolf from the
door. He's only 27, but is shaping up for some fine things as a
writer. Lots of people think so – Philip Hobsbaum, the poet and
lecturer at Glasgow University, an American writer called Mary Gray
Hughes – everyone except society that is.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The only good writer is a dead writer,
or one who makes a lot of money. Certainly Kelman can't go down the
dole and register for work as an unemployed author. Recently he was
turned down for an Arts Council grant, so he has to do his writing at
all sorts of odd hours. Sometimes into the far watches of the night.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “When I was a boy in Drumchapel I
never thought about being a writer,” he said, “though I suppose I
must have read a lot. I can't remember what. I wanted to be a painter
up until I was 21, when I realised I wasn't good enough. One of my
earliest stories was called “A Question of Balance”, which was
about a newspaper boy in Drumchapel, which I was for a spell.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">CHASED</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“I do think a lot about Drumchapel.
Like the reasons it could have been better. So many mistakes were
made, so many administrative mistakes. It's a place that breeds
cynicism, even in the young people. Cynical 17 and 14-year-olds.
You've got to fight your way out of that. What did I do when I was
that age? Played cards all the time. Went on long walks up to the Old
Kilpatricks. But even when we went there we used to get chased by the
farmers and game-keepers – especially if they caught you swimming
in the lochs...there were clearwater lochs almost behind every rise
in the ground 'way up there.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “From my house, up in scheme one, on
Glenkirk Avenue – or Stonedyke as the lower middle class like to
call it,” he grins, “we've had this fantastic view. The Campsies,
the Old Kilpatrick Hi8lls, Belside Hill, the Renfrew Hills.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> When he isn't working on a short
story, or musing over the novel he recently began, Kelman spends much
of his time up in the Old Glasgow Room in the Mitchell Library. He
has dug deep into the history of the Colquhoun family from
Garscaadden, some of whose exploits back in “ye old days” of the
estate would make the original Tom Jones blush. Drumry, he says, is
mentioned as far back in the annals as the 14<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">SIR ROBERT LIVINGSTONE</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “What I'm after,” he explains, “is
a general consciousness of the place, of Drumchapel. And there are
things that the community should be conscious of – there's history
on the doorstep out there, but I mean the kids don't know anything
about it, they don't get taught about it in their schools. For
example, do you know that the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, Sir Robert
Livingstone of Drumry, was executed in 1447? This is the kind of
thing I'm getting at, man.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> He stops to roll himself a cigarette,
leaning forward in his chair. Although by his output of spoken words
Kelman could hardly be described as laconic, he somehow evinces that
quality. Things that are left unsaid. The man who has noticeably more
on his mind than he expresses. You could spend a whole evening with
him, getting him to talk at length, listening with an ear to his
heart, yet come away not knowing too much about him. That's how it
often is with writers. No point complaining.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “Talking about history,” he begins
again, “one of the things the Corporation should never be forgiven
for is that in 1910 they knocked down a barn in Drumry. It was used
as a bothy for some workers, but the thing is it had carved in Saxon
characters over the door the name Laurence Crawford. Saxon figures!
Think of the price Americans would pay for something like that
today!”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “Laurence Crawford, of course, was
father of Captain Thomas Crawford, who captured Dumbarton Castle,
later acquiring the estate of Jordanhill. That was a long while ago.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “Working class people have no
history. They have no real sense of history. Really, they're living
only in the present...or else they put history down to every
conceivable superstition under the sun. Look at the way a man will
ignore the historical facts of 1690 for example. No matter how you
tell them, how much historical truth you present them with, they
won't believe that King Billy used mostly Catholic mercenaries for
his army at the Boyne; or that he received a blessing from the Pope.
They have a way of blocking these things out.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “One of my short stories, 'Nice to
be Nice', is concerned with this theme...Let me try to explain.
Supposing a young student were to come to a Glasgow working man who's
getting on in years. And the student tells the old man that he's been
conned his whole life. Now the old man is hardly going to accept that
his life has been useless, or admit that all his life he has been a
slave, no better-off than chattel; a pawn...It's very sad to see the
man who hasn't come to this realisation, who's still trapped – like
the working man who votes Tory maybe. Who has no clue how much the
whole system is conning him.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Politics aside, Kelman can call to
memory moments from his childhood, as clear as looking into a
rockpool, never forgetting its shape, its colour, details of its
damage. There's also a feeling of joy and liberation, like running
water, which will always remain with him.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">OLD ARMY BARRACKS</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> He remembers, for instance, tearing up
Drumchapel's old Gunsight Hill (all gone now, alas to make room for
Tallant Road) and hiding under the huge tarpaulins draped over the
ant-aircraft guns which sat on the crown of the hill beside the army
barracks, obsolete and useless, built for another age.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “That was before Southdeen was
there,” Kelman reflects, “I remember we used to hang onto the big
barrels of the guns – that would be about 1955 or so. The guns
must've been in pretty good nick because we had to hide from a
soldier once who was there to guard it or something...And at the
bottom of the hill, where Kinfauns Drive is, there was Ross Farm!”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> He remembers too, a pitch battle which
developed between Drumchapel's new settlers and the natives who had
always lived there – the tinkers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “It was always between the tenants
and the squatters,” he recalled, “and it started off with just
the kids, until the men got involved. But there were a few stones
thrown well amiss and then it fizzled out – I've no idea how it
happened.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> He laughs. “The tinkers always
intrigued me, the way it does when you're a wee boy...we saw them
like Red Indians, very mysterious.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> In those days the famous Colquhoun
family still owned the Garscadden estate down by the vale of Linkwood
(where the three high-rised flats are today.) Kelman remembers
playing a game of catch-all or hide-and-seek one summer's evening
when dusk was dropping. He hid himself, in the deepest part of the
estate, watching out for the gamekeeper, when he chanced upon two
pale headstones which sat spookily between the high stable walls and
a spinney of whispering trees.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “The other boys had probably given
up the ghost and gone home for supper,” he said, “so you can
imagine how I felt on coming across these two gravestones. They were
the graves of a horse and a dog. I was so fascinated that I stole
myself back the next morning when it was light just to make sure I
hadn't imagined it. I wonder if the stones are still there today? The
animals must've been beloved family pets, I suppose...In those days
the estate was almost idyllic, there were pear trees and apples
trees...”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">SNOBBISH</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Recently, under the guise of being a
newspaper reporter, Kelman made a few investigations about the white
church down in Old Drumchapel – he's always been by turns amused
and disgusted at the “villagers” snobbish attitude to the folk
living in the scheme.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “They recently built an extension to
the church for a discotheque,” he explained, “and they were
trying to get as many of the village children to go as possible. The
caretaker I spoke to told me that if they got most of their children
to go then they could clean out the riff-raff. That's what he said!
They only needed 20 names and then they could say the books were
filled, excluding most of the kids from the scheme.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “In the same white church, during
the blitz in the last war, a lot of Clydebank people sheltered in the
basement. One night a bomb fell leaving only a couple of walls
standing, but everyone escaped unhurt. I wonder if any of your
readers were there when it happened? Maybe if they remember anything
about it they could get in touch with me. I'd be very interested to
hear a first-hand account.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> When we closed the interview we went
down to a pub on the street corner for a pint. He talked briefly on
some of the technical problems of his craft. He really cares about
words, seeing it as a skill like his dad who was a picture framer
known widely by Glasgow painters. But his father's trade was at least
recognised by the world, they paid you a living, enough to subsist on
anyway.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “Change?” Kelman asks. “You mean
financial change? No, no, I don't think so. Change will be for the
worst perhaps. There's just no way. It's almost impossible to live
and write in this country. I may move with the family to Canada in a
couple of years. Maybe. But I don't really know. There's no way.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> He wasn't complaining. It was the way
it was. He accepted it. He was happy just to be able to write when he
could. It was something he couldn't live without. Walking off into
the dark raw night he looked very like a bus driver who had to get
home and get some shut-eye before tomorrow's shift. Which was true.<br><br>You can<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Old-Pub-Near-Angel/dp/1846970377" target="_blank" class=""> buy An Old Pub Near the Angel here</a>.</p>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:17:13 +0100Short Attention Span Theatrehttp://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/short-attention-span-theatre
<br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://tombrogan.co.uk/resources/Short Attention Span.JPG" class="yui-img" style="line-height: 1.22; width: 325px;"></div><br>I'm producing an evening of short plays at the end of this month. We're on at the Old Hairdressers, 27 Renfield Lane, Glasgow on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th July. Tickets are £5.50 and you can get them from <a href="http://www.seetickets.com/tour/short-attention-span-theatre" target="_blank" class="">See Tickets</a>. The plays are -<br><br><div><b>Ava and the Seagull by Róisín Kelly</b></div><div>Ava loves Peter. Colm loves Ava. And Big Bad One. A dark tale of bird love, betrayal and revenge.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Smokers by Julie McDowall</b></div><div>The play is about Julie's favourite topic - the end of the world - and shows two people enjoying a last cigarette before they have to descend into a nuclear bunker.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Dynamite FM by Catherine Noble</b></div><div>Newly single Jason has high hopes for his mate's pirate radio party. He's looking to let off some steam, forget his problems, and find a hot burd who'll take him home for the night. Any takers?</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Answer by Meggan Jameson</b></div><div>Could someone really tell you answers to the question you've always wanted to ask? Three woman one night in a flat think so and they are about to find out. What they didn't bank on was it might not be to the questions they thought they had.</div>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:27:36 +0100An Oral History of Mad Menhttp://tombrogan.co.uk/blog/an-oral-history-of-mad-men
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://tombrogan.co.uk/resources/compgroup3.jpg" class="yui-img" style="line-height: 1.22; width: 325px;"><br><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><span style="line-height: 1.22;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">With the second half of Mad Men's final season having started this week, The Hollywood Reporter have this great </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mad-men-uncensored-epic-never-780101" target="_blank" class="" style="line-height: 1.22;">oral history</a><span style="line-height: 1.22;"> of the show.</span></div></span></div><br><i>Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway) I was up for another pilot, and I chose Mad Men. The [agency I was with] was like, "It's on AMC, it's a period piece, it's never going to go. Are you crazy? You're not going to make money for us …" I thought it was a little impatient of them. So I moved on.</i>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:19:53 +0100